Schools
86 open schools are in scope, including 53 primary and 10 secondary schools. Chater Infant School is the nearest published school at 241 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WD1 7EQ
Vicarage · Watford · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WD1 7EQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- WD
- Postcode district
- WD1
- Postcode sector
- WD1 7
- Latitude
- 51.655562
- Longitude
- -0.405450
- British National Grid easting
- 510,400
- British National Grid northing
- 196,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Watford · E07000103
- Electoral ward
- Vicarage · E05011056
- Parish or community
- E43000082
- Westminster constituency
- Watford · E14001568
- Output area
- E00121352
- Lower layer super output area
- Watford 010A · E01023899
- Middle layer super output area
- Watford 010 · E02004977
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore WD1
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 86
- Primary
- 53
- Secondary
- 10
- 241 m
Chater Infant School
Community school
- 260 m
Chater Junior School
Community school
- 574 m
West Herts College
Further education
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6,736
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,350
- Anti social behaviour 921
- Shoplifting 664
- Other theft 525
- Public order 478
GP practices
13
within 5 km straight-line
WATFORD HEALTH CENTRE
GROUND FLOOR, COLNE HOUSE, 21 UPTON ROAD, WATFORD, WD18 0JP
ODS code E82045
329 m
SUTHERGREY HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
37A ST. JOHNS ROAD, WATFORD, WD17 1LS
ODS code E82015
682 m
THE ELMS SURGERY
38 THE AVENUE, WATFORD, WD17 4NT
ODS code E82069
682 m
BRIDGEWATER SURGERIES
BRIDGEWATER HOUSE, 7 PRINTERS AVENUE, WATFORD, WD18 7QR
ODS code E82013
1.3 km
SAS WEST HERTS
BRIDGEWATER SURGERIES, 7 PRINTERS AVENUE, WATFORD, WD18 7QR
ODS code Y08362
1.3 km
ATTENBOROUGH SURGERY
BUSHEY HEALTH CENTRE, LONDON ROAD, BUSHEY, WD23 2NN
ODS code E82124
2.4 km
MANOR VIEW PRACTICE
BUSHEY HEALTH CENTRE, LONDON ROAD, BUSHEY, WD23 2NN
ODS code E82073
2.4 km
NEW ROAD SURGERY
166 NEW ROAD, CROXLEY GREEN, RICKMANSWORTH, WD3 3HD
ODS code E82106
3.0 km
GARSTON MEDICAL CENTRE
6A NORTH WESTERN AVENUE, WATFORD, WD25 9GP
ODS code E82017
3.1 km
CONSULTING ROOMS
THE CONSULTING ROOMS, OXHEY DRIVE, WATFORD, WD19 7RU
ODS code E82020
3.5 km
SOUTH OXHEY SURGERY
OXHEY DRIVE, WATFORD, WD19 7SF
ODS code E82655
3.5 km
SHEEPCOT MEDICAL CENTRE
6 CUNNINGHAM WAY, WATFORD, WD25 7NL
ODS code E82096
4.4 km
LITTLE BUSHEY SURGERY
CALIFORNIA LANE, BUSHEY HEATH, BUSHEY, WD23 1EZ
ODS code E82657
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Durban Road
BCT · Watford
- 0.1 miles
Durban Road
BCT · Watford
- 0.1 miles
Cassiobury Park Avenue
BCT · Watford
- 0.1 miles
Cassio Road
BCT · Watford
- 0.1 miles
Cassiobury Park Avenue
BCT · Watford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Watford 010A, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
3 of 10
Overall England rank
10,090 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
6,736 published events cover 12 months, averaging 561.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,350 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.